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Exchange Data International Adds Structured Products to Worldwide Corporate Action Service
Exchange Data International (EDI), specialist in the aggregation of reference and corporate actions data, has integrated structured products into its Worldwide Corporate Actions database. This is the latest addition made by EDI to its services since electing to go head to head with London Stock Exchange by sourcing its own corporate actions data. Jonathan Bloch,…
LakeFront Data Ventures Adds Ian Mathers as Associate Partner
LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) says Ian Mathers has joined the LDV Data Management Partner Program as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be concentrating his efforts on project management and implementation and process engineering and improvement. Mathers was most recently with Royal Bank of Canada as a senior IT/data partner in Credit Risk, Ops Risk…
Vaerdipapircentralen (VP) Transfers Nordic Clients to Telekurs Financial
Telekurs Financial has signed an agreement with Vaerdipapircentralen (VP), Denmark’s Central Security Administration, to take on the clients of VP Financial Information products in the Nordic markets. VP has so far acted as a partner of Telekurs Financial in the Nordic markets. This will now be handled by Telekurs-owned SIX AB. Since 2002, Vaerdipapircentralen (VP)…
Asset Control Adds Telekurs Valordata Feed
Asset Control says it has added Telekurs’ Valdordata Feed (VDF) content to its centralised data management solution. VDF provides reference data, corporate actions information and pricing data on more than 3 million financial instruments, with up to 10 years of historical information and up to 1500 data fields related to each instrument.
Paladyne, Reuters Expand Offering to Include Hosted Reuters DataScope Onsite
Reuters and Paladyne Systems, solutions provider for the hedge fund industry, have announced the integration of Reuters DataScope Onsite with the Paladyne suite of products. Reuters DataScope Onsite provides pricing, factors, terms and conditions, corporate actions, cashflows and analytical data on the universe of asset-backed securities including MBS, Agency Pools, Whole Loans, TBA Pools and…
NumeriX, THEMA Forge Partnership for Integrated Analytics
NumeriX, provider of pricing and risk analytics for fixed income, credit, foreign exchange, hybrids, cross currency, commodities, inflation rate and equity derivatives, has entered a partnership agreement with THEMA Consulting, provider of risk management, treasury and trading services and software. THEMA’s MasterFinance 6.0 pricing engine now bundles the latest NumeriX math libraries, enabling financial institutions…
Moody’s Buys Price Discovery, End-of-Day Pricing Provider BQuotes
Moody’s Corporation has acquired BQuotes, global provider of price discovery tools and end-of-day pricing services for fixed income securities. Terms of the transaction will not be disclosed, and the financial impact to Moody’s is not expected to be material. This follows Moody’s recent acquisition of the assets of Mergent Pricing and Evaluation Service from Xinhua…
Microgen, NumeriX, IRML Team to Support Fund Managers in Derivatives Valuations
Microgen has launched a new Microgen Aptitude-based solution in partnership with NumeriX and Independent Risk Monitoring Limited (IRML), designed to support asset managers and their service providers as they tackle the challenges related to their increasing use of OTC derivatives. The solution – Microgen Independent Valuation and Risk (IVR) – is billed as an integration…
SEI’s Ventura Joins LakeFront’s Partner Programme
Edward Ventura has joined the LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV) data management partner programme as a LakeFront associate partner. He will be focusing on expanding the LDV reference data consulting business. Most recently Ventura was senior product manager of asset data services for SEI, where he led the strategy and sourcing for redistribution and consumption of…
Trepp, Markit Partner for Transparency on Synthetic CMBSs
Trepp, provider of CMBS and commercial mortgage information, analytics and technology, and Markit, supplier of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing, have forged a partnership they say will bring greater transparency and accuracy to the valuation of synthetic Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBSs). Under the agreement, Markit’s valuation input template will be integrated…